Jane Yolen wins the Sydney Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award AND the award for poetry!
Jane in Smith College’s Greencourt Review
Some of Jane Yolen’s earliest publications were in Smith College’s (she graduated in 1960) Greencourt Review.
Jane releases 400th book
Read about Jane’s 400th book
Even Wonder Woman reads Jane Yolen’s How Do Dinosaurs books!!!!
And it’s for a good cause, too!
How Do Dinosaurs Learn To Be Kind?
This is the latest (but not the last) of my Dinosty (get it? Dino dynasty!) books, which are all about different behaviors of naughty but nice dinos that began over twenty years ago with How Does A Dinosaur Say Goodnight?
The Scarlet Circus
This is the fourth Tachyon collection of themed fantasy stories with backmatter and poems to go with each story. This one is all love stories that are full of magic and mystery and—of course—love. The stories had been published in other collections of mine, anthologies other people put together, and literary and sf magazines, but this is the first time they are all together by theme.
Yuck You Suck! Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck
Poems about animals that suck. No really. The ones that sip and slurp, and otherwise suck their food or use sucking for locomotion and other things. My daughter Heidi and I did a lot of research on such animals around the world, then each chose which creatures we individually wanted to write about.
Mrs. Noah’s Doves
This midrash was a delight for a wife and mother of bird watchers to write. It is a kind of poem, which you will notice if you read it out loud. The pictures are just stunning. Midrash is what the rabbis do by taking a story from the Hebrew Bible and finding new ways to interpret them.
Love Birds
I call this my sequel to OWL MOON, only forty years later! Probably I am the only one who sees the connection. I think the pictures are stunning in their own way. I hope John Schoneherr, who won the Caldecott for OWL MOON, is looking down from heaven with approval.
Elefantastic
This book has only 22 words in the text, and more than half of them are made up! (There is a backmatter which accounts for many more words.) My husband is the one who counted the words and told me!! And I adore the paintings that look like old circus posters. It took the editor and art director more than a year to find exactly the right illustrator.